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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It is a very casual patreon, even $1/mo means a lot, as this functions as both literal money that can pay bills but also social permission to Do Valuable Stuff that fits into my sort of gonzo open source mainatiner / writer / Poaster internet presence. Anyway thanks for reading this chaotically scheduled halfhearted self promotional update

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Alternately, you can sign up via https://github.com/sponsors/glyph . Fewer fees that way so I should support it but Github is way more annoying about Copilot, so it sort of balances out. Feel free to use the one more convenient to you and congruent with your interests.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Speaking of limited spoons, thanks VERY much to the random patreon who just signed up despite my utter lack of self-promotion. I am so far behind on updates. But if you want to get some when I do finally finish this Writing Project From Hell and start writing those again, https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

as someone who, in the last six months, has seen my own daily spoon quota go from like 30 to like … 5 … this is particularly acute

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there is no alternate technology which can actually do all the work that the AI is pretending to do, there is no life hack solution to the “comprehension debt” problem that every software developer with a microphone has been talking about for months. the solution is to sit down and do the slow and difficult work of comprehension. there is no VC pitch for this

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mike@chinwag.org ("Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]") wrote:

Once again, my professional recommendation in response to the latest Linux kernel vulnerability in the news is that you should gather up all your electronic devices, cast them into the sea, and retreat to the woods.

Each night, gather your children and tell them tales of the Before Times when the hubris of humanity grew so large that we made idols of sand and spoke to them as equals. Remind them that the sand, of course, did not speak or think, but we imagined it could, and let it guide us to folly.

Should a stranger ever come to your village with a glowing rectangle, encourage the youth to beat them with sticks.

#infosec

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

so much of the “AI” mania is just that we are all asked to do too much, to be too many things to too many people, to be “on” all the time. every job is 9 jobs, every project is a startup side hustle even if you have zero equity. the answer to “well if I can’t use the ‘AI’ to do these other 8 jobs that aren’t really my job what else can I do” is just… break the wheel

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packetcat@tenforward.social wrote:

I think mayhaps we have been a little bit too romantic about the idea of the c-suite

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

That time Jerry (from Rick and Morty) goes to his computer and clicks a folder called "stuff" makes me laugh so hard for some reason. It's like the least helpful name for a folder

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

TOMORROW: Americans are calling out of work, walking out of school, and refusing to shop on the nationwide day of economic disruption.

There are many ways you can get involved on May Day: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/indivisible

Join one of the over 3,000 events planned: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?utm%5Fsource=indivisible

Attachments:

• video: c155d61d51d642c9.mp4

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

7. Congress gave SCOTUS the ability to decide what cases to hear in 1925. We could take that power away, gutting their ability to only select cases that they want to shape their own political goals, and give it to a political neutral body. (Working on that leg - stay tuned.)

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

6. Because Congress DOES have the power of the purse. We can't cut their salary, but every other part of their budget is at our sole discretion. Why should we give them access to clerks, or office supplies, or new robes if they can't promise not to take RVs in exchange for rulings?

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

An important update:

Texas courts created such an unprecedented situation in an emergency filing last night, no one knows who is in charge of InfoWars, and therefore no one can pay rent.

Since no one controls these assets right now, it does appear InfoWars will shut down tonight at midnight.

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minad@mastodon.world ("Daniel Mendler") wrote:

@karthink, @yantar92 and I took over as maintainers of the Elfeed, the Emacs feed reader!

https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

#emacs #elfeed #atom #rss

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

A.I.'s Manifesto Destiny https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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rickderuiter ("Rick de Ruiter") wrote:

Michael de Adder

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Yesterday, 42 House Democrats joined Republicans to hand the government a blank check to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans. Democratic leadership fell short by not whipping representatives in opposition to this bill, which would not have passed without Democrats’ support.

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DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

Last Days of Playland, 1968-72
Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland #sanfrancisco

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LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your photography history post for today: by the photography studio of Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–1863), Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl, ca. 1850, daguerreotype with applied color, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography

From the The Daguerreian Society: “A daguerreotype is the earliest widely adopted form of photography, introduced in 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. It produced a highly detailed, one-of-a-kind image on a polished silver-coated copper plate. No negative was involved—each daguerreotype is a unique object…

The daguerreotype was revolutionary: It produced images with unprecedented accuracy and detail; made portraiture accessible to the middle class; and led to the rise of a booming photographic industry during the 1840s–1850s, as studios rapidly spread across Europe and the United States.”

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hugovk ("Hugo van Kemenade") wrote:

@glyph @str4d.xyz You can "Get usage report" at
https://github.com/settings/billing/usage and they'll send you a spreadsheet showing which user used how much (time and cost) of each runner for each repo and workflow.

You'll need to cross reference against your private repos as public ones don't count against the quota.

For example, I've used 55k mins so far in March, other humans 874, Renovate 336, GH Pages 201, pre-commit 26, Dependabot 16, GH Actions 12. Only 4 mins of private repo using the quota.

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chu@climatejustice.social ("Chu 朱") wrote:

If you are in Toronto or Ottawa and thinking about hosting a party, please check out plateshare.ca

It's a volunteer run service by local parents that's totally free. Borrow a set of dishes for your party and don't use anything disposable.

plateshare.ca

Please share this with other groups and let them know we exist. I am no longer on other forms of social media to remind people about us and it makes me sad that usage has done down and people are probably buying disposable stuff from the dollar store.

#Toronto
#Ottawa

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ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

A fascinating collection of vintage microscopes. Some serious steampunk vibes from all that brasswork! Inside an abandoned medical research institute, somewhere in Portugal.

#AbandonedPlaces #Portugal #Steampunk #Photography #Brass #Microscope #Medical

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gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

As we wait for Google to lock down our Android devices, I am very proud to announce the new SDK / Developer Program for the Light Phone! You can build/install/share whatever you want, but we’ll be helping publish/distribute Tools that are fully open-source, vetted by the community, and fit the Light ethos.

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-light-phone-developer-kit/

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paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

@DemocracyMattersALot Interestingly, the last time this happened, the world was fighting Nazis and fascists. Who knew the fascists and Nazi's would be inside the White House. #USPol

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AnachronistJohn@zia.io ("Bitslingers-R-Us") wrote:

It was fun to show off the Raspberry Pi Zero W in a bottle which is running as a public email server.

Even here at the show, some people weren’t happy with the idea of self hosting email and wanted to say it doesn’t work. I let people send email directly to it, watch the logs via a terminal window on the Pi 400 as it’s delivered, and see the email in alpine. They could also send email using alpine to test deliverability and see delivery in the logs.

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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

If I ever become an evil mastermind, a la a Bond villain, I'll make sure my lair undergoes strict safety review and inspections. I will not be happy if shooting a single gas container will make my whole expensive hidden base explode. Such shoddy construction would be entirely inexcusable.

#Spectre #JamesBond

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

statute moles

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The Mayo Clinic has surprisingly good restaurants. (Taking mom here for a consultation.)

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endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

I am so exhausted by every single platform pushing some bullshit AI features that puport to replace some kind of step in the creative process

I’m doing the creative process because that is *the point of the creative process* and *why my content is enjoyed by my audience*